your blog and all the comments about the pancake are awesome.
I like reading it.
Have you ever been to my country, Indonesia? We have a lot of food, including pancake too.
You should come here to our country and make a blog about its food 🙂

In Germany and Austria, there are Pfannkuchen for Fasching / Karneval. But although that means “pan cakes” literally, the Pfannkuchen are actually jelly doughnuts! Also known as “Krapfen” or “Berliner.”

I just love the way food and history interleave with each other. And luckily I have a wonderful gluten-free pancake recipe. I know it’s already Lent, so theoretically I should be giving something up, but since I gave up gluten in December I kind of feel like I gave at the office. Bring on the pancakes!

I don’t know why, but I always eat the middle of the pancake first. The “crusts”, what there are not crusts, edges then, I savor or sometimes just abandon. Best I ever had was at The Egg & I in Estes Park, CO. It was called something like the flip flop flap jack. Nice post!

I LOVE your blog but I’m drooling. Please tell me you have a healthy eating section because I would love to follow your blog. I am on a strict healthy eating plan for the past three months and just looking at your posts make me covet things I haven’t even thought about in months. Unless you want me to write a guest column??? Thanks for reading my blog, I will be writing a post about healthy eating shortly but I admit……I miss pancakes and other things too. Yum. Laurie @ hibernationnow

We (swedes) celebrate Fettisdag, which as the french call it, translantes to Fat tuseday. We don’t eat pancakes, we eat something called Semla, which is a wheat and cardamum-bun, filled with either jam, or a sweet almondpaste topped with whipped cream!http://katarinacarlsson.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/dsc_1006.jpg Don’t they look amazing?!

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As a youngster I was baptised at various stages by three different Christian Churches (I assume now the the new one crosses out the old one, but as a child I just assumed I was a member of three clubs whose members were mostly horrible singers). The one thing that made being a Catholic and going to a Catholic school for a brief period bearable was Shrove Tuesday, though as an adult I’d completely forgotten about it un til I saw this post. Can all of us lapsed church goers pretend that today is Shrove Thursday instead?

Here in Naples it’s more like lasagna followed by fried dough strips (Chiacchiere\frappe) but now you’ve convinced me to try pancakes (and pretend we’re in Milan where the last day before lent falls official on Saturday). maybe with nutella?

It’s only significance to me is that sometimes it’s reported in the news. Other than that I would not have a clue when it is. It’s a millions years since I last went to a church and like good friday it’s just another day when I’ll have cereal for brekky and meat for dinner LOL

I love your blog, ideas, and especially pancakes! they are my favorite….Cornmeal with crumbled bacon and real maple syrup. whole wheat with raspberries and dark chocolate, or pumpkin spice with homemade applesauce. Also for a great healthy orange waffle recipe come visit me @inkspiring19.com.

I am definitely following your blog from now on.
By the way, in answer to what holiday would we make up and what food would we celebrate with: For me it would be “Melting Pot Day” having everyone bring a dish of their own heritage to celebrate our diversity, and how well we can blend our own spice and flavors together…my dish would be Kale soup since I’m Portuguese.

I work for a newspaper and all these area churches send us information advertising their Shrove Tuesday pancake suppers. Thanks for shedding a little light on the connection between the pancakes and the “holiday.”

English pancakes are thin and light. American pancakes are the thick ones. The pancakes that are thick in England are called griddle cakes, drop scones or Scotch pancakes, but our ‘pancakes’ are very much like crêpes.

Pancake Day sounds good to me.
My husband is the cook in our family and Saturday mornings are when he likes to make a stack of cakes. He changes them up from regular plain cakes to wheat, buttermilk, nuts (either pecans or walnuts) with apple topping, or for a snack chocolate pancakes. You can never go wrong with pancakes.

One thing thats suprises me with Pancake Day is that the supermarket sector any every other advertise has not yet jumped on the “old” ram it down your throat tactic with adverts and all sorts of Pancake Day cars etc…

We have this fiest here in Ukraine, too. However, it is mostly related to our local heathen culture and religeon, more than to Christianity. We bake pan cakes or make varenici, else called pirogi with curd.

Thank goodness! That explains why my daughter wanted pancakes for dinner! I don’t really think she knew, she just wanted them. I’ll be blogging about how the heck did I let my kids talk me into taquitos and pancakes for dinner tonight! LOL! Congrats on being Freshly Pressed!

I’ll make any excuse to eat pancakes for an entire day. :p Around where I live, they used to have annual pancake festivals where they would serve various kinds of pancakes, as well as different flavors of syrup. Man was it ever good. 😀 But for the life of me, they stopped holding them, and I don’t know why. I’m very bitter about it still. XD

I know in England, some places do pancake races, where people run back and forth while tossing pancakes up in the air and trying not to drop them. Unfortunately, I never did participate when I lived there. It sounds like fun!

We might make french toast tomorrow instead, as my husband and I just baked fresh bread today.

I am not a huge fan of pancakes, but my tastes are ever evolving and I wouldn’t mind trying this out for dessert tonight. I did have an amazing pancake souffle at a local restaurant this past week. Pancakes, berries, whip cream, and chopped nuts. So good.

Thank you for sharing your Shrove, Bursting, Fat knowledge. I only knew of today as Mardi Gras, but really enjoyed learning its other names.

I live in PA and Faschnaut Day is a PA Dutch (German) way of celebrating for Shrove Tuesday. It has become common practice to eat any kind of donut on “Donut Day”. Years age I worked in a donut shop and Donut Day is quite the experience! Faschnauts don’t have holes so that “You’re luck doesn’t fall out when you eat them”. Silly maybe, but fun anyway!

Oh my goodness! Such beautiful mouthwatering pancakes! Sweet torture of the Wolfie tastebuds!! Such big and wonderful pancakes you have posted! The pancake facts are very interesting too. I never knew those things about Shrove Tuesday. Lovely scrumptious post 😉

I love Mardi Gras. 🙂 In a lot of European countries it is referred to as Carnaval (such as the huge parade they do down in Rio de Janeiro). People dress up in costumes, there are parades, dancing, music etc. They don’t do the “pancake” tradition in Spain where I’m currently living, but in France they usually eat crepes (which I prefer over pancakes because they are thinner and lighter). The kids at the school I work at in Spain dressed up in costume, kind of like what we do in the US for Halloween.

Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed! I have come to realize that I will NEVER have this honor bestowed upon me but I am so very glad that it has been bestowed upon someone who’s blog I read, follow, and actually like!

Love this blog. Never knew that my birthday, Sept. 20, was dedicated to punch! Some people called today “Fastnacht Day.” I am sure I am not spelling this right. It was traditional to serve a pillowy donut, kind of like a New Orleans beignet.

I have never even thought of having a pancake with a salty garnish instead of sweet. This is a must try for me! So glad I stopped and I love to read otehr’s comments….this is why you do it! Yummy post…thanks to you both :o) Happy almost Spring!
When I waas growing up pancakes with powdered sugar and jelly were a dinner time staple for me and my sibilings. Memories 🙂

I’m from central Pennsylvania, and we celebrate Faschnaut Day. A faschnaut is like a donut, only better! I believe the tradition comes from German immigrants and their “fasching” parties (much like Mardi Gras). It’s great to see so many traditions with a common theme – indulgence!

I forgot it was Pancake Tuesday (it’s official name in Ireland, and yet we are considered creative)!!!!!!!!!!!!! Off to get some batter, some chocolate and some strawberries – not our official way of doing it but BETTER. Dribble….

I didn’t know about Shrove Tuesday. Thanks for the lesson! Funnily enough, my daughter had International day for Girl Scouts and her troop chose Sweden, so I made dozens of Swedish pancakes – aka super think pancakes on Saturday. They were good!

We also had some good N’Awlins fare- Muffaletta sandwiches and Beignets. We’ll eat tonight, and tomorrow we’ll start paring down. Oy… That’s going to be hard! 🙂

This is my first time on your blog and how convinient… I’ve been CRAVING pancakes and real maple syrup for so long (my current location has put a end to maple syrup unless I want to pay $30 for 12oz.). Great post.

This is the most appealing Mardi Gras photo I’ve seen in a long time. Guess that shows where my priorities lie. Love the excuse to have pancakes! I think I’ll make them for lunch. Have to go work out first.